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小词详解 | calibre
calibre 英 [ˈkælɪbə(r)] 美 [ˈkælɪbər]
Focusing too much attention on elite universities may be ill-advised if much of their success is attributable to the calibre of students they attract.
太过关注精英大学可能并不明智,如果它们的成功大部分应归于其吸引的学生自身的水平的话。
——《经济学人》Handgun caliber has been getting bigger over recent decades, even as murder rates have fallen.
近几十年来,尽管谋杀率有所下降,但手枪口径却越来越大。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 枪炮管的内径或口径
他徒手掐死了卫兵,然后把卫兵口径为0.22英寸的步枪藏在了竹丛里。
He throttled the guard with his bare hands and then secreted the guard's .22 calibre rifle in the bamboo thicket.
我们需要更多像你这样有才干的人来使行将倒闭的公司起死回生。
We need more people of your calibre to pull the moribund company back from the brink.她的教学质量很高。连最不感兴趣的学生都开始坐直了听讲。
The calibre of her teaching is very high. Even the most apathetic students are beginning to sit up and listen.
It worked out in a thousand little conversations, all of which were of the same calibre.
这种气氛可以从无数次谈话中感觉出来。而且每次谈话都是大同小异。
trait: distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person merit: the quality of being particularly good or worthy, especially so as to deserve praise or reward character: all the qualities and features that make a person, groups of people, and places different from others